Sunday, 4 May 2014

Continuing my adventures with abstraction I have decided to work the next three months' JQs on this theme. A walk through the bluebells with celandine and daisies flooded with sunlight is my starting point.

I have collected together a collection of fabrics within this colour scheme and will now see what I can make of these in an abstract format.

These are some of the fabrics.

My first idea was to create a strip quilt with segments of blue for the bluebells among the leaves and other flowers.

Here is the finished piece.

I think the strips are too wide for the size of the quilt and the blue/grey strip too dark for the rest of the piece. Now I have to think of another abstract treatment I could use .

About Me

I am a fabric adict. Its rare that I have more than a day away from doing something creative with fabric or thread, my passion for textiles has prompted me to set up this blog.
I have become an adict gradually over the years and now I have the time to devote to my adiction. I got here through the interest, patience, understanding and teaching of a number of talented women who nurtured my skills, fed my interest and gave praise and encouragement as I developed this lifelong interest. I'm so grateful to them for sharing and for helping me understand that to make progress one has to make mistakes first and then learn to put them right.
I am on a journey, beginning a voyage of discovery to develop my creativity and move my art forwards.

My Reading List - don't you just love to know what others read? This is now a rolling list

January 2014Michael Ridpath - Fatal Error

Alex Grey - The Bird that didn't SingOverviewI have never kept a list of everything I have read before - its quite fascinating to look back on. I was prompted to attempt the list because of a notebook belonging to my grandfather that I found when clearing my father's house. My grandfather had kept a list of his reading from 1909 to 1973 and he was a "serious" reader, reading in French, German, Hebrew and Greek as well as all the English classics and modern novels as they came out in the mid 20th century, but largely non-fiction. he was clearly a fascinating man and I am really sorry that I never got to know that side of him while he was alive.As you can see I can't match him, but he is an inspiration when I'm stuck and I am planning a greater diet of non-fiction in the new year. What this space.